Voyeurism: I see you!

My word is voyeurism, and here are some really interesting facts I found about it on the library site.First, I first looked up the term voyeurism on the Oxford dictionary to find out what it means. Voyeurism-"1924 J. S. VAN TESLAAR tr. Stekel's Disorders of Instincts & Emotions II. 341 Voyeurism, erotic gratification experienced at looking at another's sexual organs; morbid desire to peep into secrets. "In Greek it means scopophilia. In addition, I found the following piece of information to be very interesting since I see a lot of actors and actresses in nude acts on television. The dictionary also states that, "1969 Daily Tel. 25 Apr. 19/5 there is a feeling that more and more actresses are being asked to take their clothes off at auditions. As a form of voyeurism. "(Wow!) Next, I checked out the date chart to find the time in which this word was first discovered. The data chart showed it started being used around 1924-1985. I decided to find a book that contains voyeurism. I found an electronic book that is titled, "Video Voyeurism Prevention Act of 2003", presented by representatives Ovley, Gonzalez, Goode, and Baird. The purpose of this act is to prevent individuals from taping others privacy with out their consent, or them knowing. The article goes into explaining why camera phones, video cameras, combined with the Internet has provided a great threat to adults, teenagers, and even children . That there have been numerous reports of violating privacy across the country!The punishment for this spiteful crime , " punishable by a fine of not more than One hundred thousand dollars or imprisonment for up to one year , or both."(Video Voyeruism Prevention p.1 ) In my opinion, this punishment does not seem to fit the crime. I think that a person’s privacy is worth much more than 100,000 dollars or even a year in jail. Moreover, the humiliation and the pain that a person might go through once he or she finds out that they have been taped and put on the Internet for the world to see! I also found a TV show that contains voyeurism in the media section, Alfred Hitchcock show. I'm already aquainted with Alfred Hitchcock shows because I’m always watching it on the Chiller channel. I found two other interesting novels: Privacy lost : How technology is endangering your privacy by David H. Holtzman, and Dirty Windows by Merry Alpern that contain voyeurism.

Who am I?

While doing this assignment was a good and bad thing for me. The good outcome of this assignment was that I finally found my source! (*smiles* ) On the other hand , the bad thing is that I had a hard time finding out exact information about the author that wrote the article. (frowns). So I found my source on this website , its perfect and everything. Of course, the next step for me would be look around on the website and try finding a biography of the author , and other achievements of the person just because of the simple fact that she posted on the website . Well this website was a disadvantage because I found nothing about the author , just other information that I thought was irrelevant to me , not useful. So I decided to go on a deeper mission to find out about this anonymous person . I went to Yahoo , and Google because these search engines were always helpful with past researches and that I am very familiar with them. I found myself with another disadvantage these search engines were not useful with providing information that I was looking for. So as time went by , I was getting frustrated by the minute. At first, I wanted to give up and forget about the newfound source , the author , and even this blog assignment! But I changed my mind and decided to stay with it. I went back to the website where I had found the source in the beginning because I thought maybe I missed something. Well I did miss something on the website, no I did not find out exactly about the author , but the website itself had sort of provided clues about what type of person the author could be. I even took a further step in emailing one of the other authors on the website to find out if she knew anything about the unknown author. In the end I gave up researching about the author ,and started researching about the website. I just clicked around and read about the mission of what the website was trying to achieve and other interesting facts. I guess my advantages were that I found my source , and information that I could use as ethos to put in my paper. So now I am very happy….

Black Noise by Tricia Rose

"Black Noise : Rap music and Black culture in a contemporary America",is a very interesting novel to read. I’m not saying this just because it’s a part of the assignment, but it is a remarkable novel. From what I read in the first few chapters of the book and the overview, it goes on to further explain and explore the positive and negative roles that rap music plays in America . In the first chapter the author examines how this popular music brings focus on important issues like racism and economic injustice, and contrasts it with the controversial statements of violence that is often found. Besides these issues the author also traces hip hop history to discuss what really makes rap so contentious and focus on where female rappers really do stand in the hip-hop community. Tricia Rose is a great candidate for writing this book because of her credibility. From her biography she is a professor of African Studies at Brown University , and specializes in culture, politics, and gender issues. From her research and studies of the aspects of the music, in addition to writing numerous documents about this culture, she provides the audience with reliance in the author due to her knowledge of what she is debating about throughout her book. This gives a great affect on the readers.

Dizzee Rascal

I decided to research Dizzee Rascal . My reason for choosing him is because I felt that I can relate more to his style of music with the dancing and the girls in the video “Flex”. I felt that it was more similar to the rap videos that I’m used to seeing on BET and MTV all the time. So I searched around on Yahoo music and Google and here is what I found out about Mr. Rascal . Dizzee Rascal, who real name is Dylan Mills, grew up in the East End of London with his mother. Rascal music talent began when he was a teenager, started off making tracks on a classroom computer,in addition, getting some ideas from other known rappers from the U.S. that he admired. Later he released his first single “I Love you”, with his group, Roll Deep Crew, as underground artists under the white label.
The single helped lead the way of the beginning of the young artist ‘s way to success of his first album released in 2003 titled,” Boy In the Corner”, that was number twenty-three on the U.K. charts, also went platinum. Other albums that followed are, Showtime (2004), and Dream (2004) and several great other albums. I researched more about his music style and came across this description from Answer .com website in the entertainment section, “music is an electric mixture of garage and hip-hop beats with Palette of influences, ranging from metal guitars to found sounds, drill and bass synthlines, eclectic samples and even Japanese court music. His vocals, he uses fast style of rapping which blends elements from garage Mcing, conventional rap, grime, and reggae.” Some other interesting facts that I found from the same website. That in 2005, he had an endorsement deal with clothing ECKO and with Nike to design his own shoe!
Although he is from London , Dizzie is like any other U.S. rapper . From what I have read from his lyrics and listen to clips of other songs, he uses the hip-hop music to vent out anything that is on mind rather it is issues about his life growing up , present issues, money, girls, or even to up come with a new dance song , it is all the same like artists today. The only difference is the styles and his beats that sets him a part from other rap artists. Maybe his culture has somewhat of an impact of his hip-hop, but the messages are all the same.

Peer Review

Today, there was peer review session in class. Oh, how I dread peer review! I often wish my professor did not allow us to do it just because of how I believe I will do with helping others. Typically, I have trouble trying to proofread and reword my paper to give it that effectiveness. Therefore, I worry how I might do with someone else’s paper. However, today it was not disaster as I thought it would be. I actually enjoyed reading my peers paper. I guess it because their topics were interesting to read. The short session was good and I got great feedback from my group members. They mostly suggested that I add more details to certain parts, and my weakness I could approve. I did not get anything about grammar mistakes, and misspell words, which really please me. I wanted my paper to be close to perfect so I will have less editing to do. My main concern about my paper was whether the readers were able to identify my claim, and that my examples supported my claim. I want my paper to be concise that targets a particular audience.I believe my paper is more towards persuasion than truth seeking. I think I might have persuaded my group members to agree with my argument. As for giving good feedback to my group members, I know I did a good job. I mostly gave advice of switching paragraphs were I thought it would fit best, and the usage of other words instead of commonly used ones. My other group member I did not have time to review the work, but I’m taking time out at home to go over it and give the best advice I can. Overall, the session wasawesome! I hope that the next one is just the same.